show an animal psychology. The tales have a scientific basis, and the interest is centered in this and not in an exaggeration of it. Having viewed the animal tale as a growth let us look now at a few individual tales:-- One of the most pleasing animal tales is _Henny_ _Penny_, or _Chicken Lichen_, as it is sometimes called, told by Jacobs in _English Fairy Tales_. Here the enterprising little hen, new to the ways of the world, ventures to take a walk. Because a grain of corn falls on her top-knot, she believes the sky is falling, her walk takes direction, and thereafter she proceeds to tell the king. She takes with her all she meets, who, like her, are credulous,--Cocky Locky, Ducky Daddies, Goosey Poosey, and Turky Lurky,--until they meet Foxy Woxy, who leads them into his cave, never to come out again. This is similar to the delightful Jataka tale of _The Foolish Timid Rabbit_, which before has been outlined for telling, which has been re-told by Ellen C. Babbit. In this tale a Rabbit, asleep under a palm tree, heard a noise, and thought "the earth was all breaking up." So he ran until he met another Rabbit, and then a hundred other Rabbits, a Deer, a Fox, an Elephant, and at last a Lion. All the animals except the Lion accepted the Rabbit's news and followed. But the Lion made a stand and asked for facts. He ran to the hill in front of the animals and roared three times. He traced the tale back to the first Rabbit, and taking him on his back, ran with him to the foot of the hill where the palm tree grew. There, under the tree, lay a cocoanut. The Lion explained the sound the Rabbit had heard, then ran back and told the other animals, and they all stopped running. _Brother Rabbit Takes Some Exercise_, a tale from _Nights with Uncle Remus_ is very similar to _Henny_ _Penny_ and could be used at the same time. It is also similar to Grimm's _Wolf and Seven Kids_, the English _Story of Three Pigs_, the Irish _The End of the World_, and an Italian popular tale. _The Sheep and the Pig_, adapted from the Scandinavian by Miss Bailey in _For the Children's Hour_, given also in Dasent's _Tales from the Field_, is a delightfully vivacious and humorous tale which reminds one of _Henny Penny_. A Sheep and Pig started out to find a home, to live together. They traveled until they met a Rabbit and then followed this dialogue: _R_. "Where are you going?" _S. and P_. "We are going to build us a house." _R_. "May I live with you?" _S. and P_. "What can you do to help?" The Rabbit scratched his leg with his left hind foot for a minute and said, "I can gnaw pegs with my sharp teeth and I can put them in with my paws." "Good," said the Sheep and the Pig, "you may come with us!" Then they met a gray Goose who could pull moss and stuff it in cracks, and a Cock who could crow early and waken all. So they all found a house and lived in it happily.